>1) Are all patterns of value also intellectual patterns?
Oh my. I think this question could easily be taken the wrong way. The word "also"
doesn't help. The question *as stated* is not very interesting and is easily
answered "no". An inorganic PoV that says "atoms like to cling to each other in
solids" is not also an intellectual PoV (clearly), because atoms don't operate at
the intellectual level. But taken in the context of your discussions...
I think you mean:
Did any of the first three levels exist (along with their patterns of value)
before the intellectual level evolved?
To this I answer: 'yes', but only if the answer to the second question is
'discovered'. And it's not, so my answer is 'no'. So the answer to your original
question (in the sense it was posed) is 'yes'. Got that??!!
>2) Were the 4 levels of the MOQ discovered or created?
Created, but this answer is provisional.
Suppose these 4 levels were a critical underpinning to the success of MOQ. And
suppose no other levels, and no proper subset of these levels, could be
substituted for these 4 levels and make MOQ half as good. And further suppose
that MOQ, with these 4 levels, achieved a world-wide status of "top metaphysics
banana" that not only was head-over-heals better than any competing metaphysics,
but prompted most professionals in this field to consider the subject closed.
Then and only then would I call the 4 levels of MOQ a discovery. As it stands
TODAY the 4 levels seem more like creative choices which underpin an otherwise
promising metaphysics. The jury is still out. Maybe MOQ will be widely and wildly
accepted 100 years from now. But I doubt it. It's hard to imagine any
"discoveries" ever being made in metaphysics due to its inherent shortcomings,
which Pirsig describes.
>What answer to each of these statements is of highest quality to you?
If by this you mean which is the more important question, I'd say the second,
because the answer to the first is contingent on it. That is, if I interpreted
your questions properly.
Regards,
Glennn
MOQ.org - http://www.moq.org
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